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Poems
in Journals, Magazines and Anthologies
Below are only samplings of published poems in Journals, Magazines, and Anthologies. Numerous more have been published.
Title | Publisher | Date | Link Text |
|---|---|---|---|
Would you like to die in another's trash? | Cathexis Northwest Press | May 2024 | Read (page 53) |
Flowers and singing whales | The Ekphrastic Review | April 2024 | Read (please scroll down) |
Mom | Alexandria Torpedo Factory Artists competition | January 2024 | |
If my pack is good, I'm good | Pen-in-Hand, Maryland Writers' Association literary journal | January 2024 | Read |
Whom shall I blame or groom? | The Ekphrastic Review | November 2023 | Read (please scroll down) |
Gandhi, Gus and Renewal | Setu | October 2023 | Read |
Communications and The Bald Eagle | Pen-In-Hand, Maryland Writers' Association Literary Journal | July 2023 | |
Poor Aging South Asian Mom and the Realtor’s Assistant and Cobwebs, Vitamins, and Freedom! | Maryland Writers’ Association’s Literary Journal | January 2023 | Read |
Tootna of animal and human spirits: A collection of ten monokus | Pen-In-Hand, Maryland Writers' Association's Literary Journal | July 2022 | Read |
Half woman, half empty | Pen-In-Hand, Maryland Writers' Association's Literary Journal | January 2022 | Read |
Tears can come anytime | FemAsia | January 2022 | Read |
Eye of the storm | The Ekphrastic Review | December 2021 | |
No clean slate with blood | The Ekphrastic Review | December 2021 | |
Life and Muse of biorhythm | Teesta Journal | December 2021 | Read |
Holika, Sita, Sati | Confluence | December 2021 | |
Kisses at the espresso bar | FemAsia | October 2021 | Read |
Ask me your fortune, if you dare | The Journal of Expressive Writing | October 2021 | Read |
My soul sits at the edge of Arlington and Washington DC | The Dillydoun Review | October 2021 | Read |
Of in-law daughters and mothers, Prayer and Humdrum | Cathexis Northwest Press | October 2021 | Read |
I want a wholesome life | The Dillydoun Review | September 2021 | Read |
Whispers | The Dillydoun Review | August 2021 | Read |
Reclaim my space | The Journal of Expressive Writing | August 2021 | Read |
Blues of a strong Indian woman in mid America small town, Ancient Creation, and Broken People | Lapis Lazuli | August 2021 | Read |
Koala and Judases, Humans and extinctions, and Flame and Escape | Das Literarisch | August 2021 | Read |
I interpret my colorless drink | FemAsia | July 2021 | Read |
Sumair | The Ekphrastic Review | July 2021 | |
Of Rainbows and Jellyfish | Pen in Hand, Maryland Writers Association Journal | July 2021 | Read |
Maryada and Modern Draupadi | The Dillydoun Review | July 2021 | Read |
The Eyes of Valentine | The Ekphrastic Review | July 2021 | Read |
Humans and extinctions | Cathexis Northwest Press | July 2021 | Read |
Some Chidiya (birds) are wise | Visual Verse | Read | |
Two wells | Visual Verse | July 2021 | Read |
To be or not to be | Visual Verse | Read | |
King is not well & Please don’t say he is dead, Trivia is possible | Life and Legends | June 2021 | Read |
Monsoon Peeks | House of Haiku | June 2021 | |
Native and Jazz Vocalist | Confluence | May 2021 | |
Finally, She Showered (Novel Excerpt) | Aaduna | May 2021 | Read |
The Trojan Horse | The Dillydoun Review | May 10, 2021 | Read |
Nagini that may not comply | Visual Verse | May 10, 2021 | Read |
What's wrong with us Kali women? | FemAsia | April 25, 2021 | Read |
A new day (read out by Brian Salmons); (Podcast) | The Ekphrastic Review | April 2021 | Listen |
Greatest warrior is metamorphic Mother Earth | The Dillydoun Review | April 2021 | Read |
A new day | The Ekphrastic Review | March 2021 | |
Festivals of life | The Dillydoun Review | March 2021 | Read |
The eyes of valentine, Haboobs and Skeletons and When I get dressed and go out (Video Poem) | Poetryspective | March 2021 | Watch |
My Dreams | The Journal of Expressive Writing | March 2021 | Read |
Parents | Visual Verse | March 2021 | Read |
Excerpts from my unpublished novel | FemAsia and Alreadyfeminine | February 2021 | |
Corona love-life layers, What happened to their clothes and Sleepless Nights | Spectrum | February 2021 | Read |
Who let the pigs out? | Visual Verse | February 2021 | Read |
Teaching chair yoga at an assisted living home | The Burrow | February 2021 | Read |
Dance of life keeps me going | The Burrow | February 2021 | Read |
Sleepless Nights and Airplanes in flight, when a heart came to be in crimson and saffron | 'Borderless' and 'Crooked Hearts Press Poetry Board' | December 2020 and February 2020 | Read |
One with nature | Setu | December 2020 | Read |
There's a hole in my heart but my heart's not a hole---it's whole | Setu | December 2020 | Read |
COVID19's Inverted Triangle in the anthology | Pandemic Poetry | December 2020 | |
Uncertainty, My Secret Lover | The Mirror of Time | December 2020 | |
Excerpts from my unpublished novel | Laps Lazuli | Spring 2020 | |
Rape and Bandit Queen-Phoolan Devi | Confluence | November 2020 | |
In which climate will you celebrate? | Borderless | November 2020 | Read |
Gandhi's Chaadar | Setu | November 2020 | Read |
Fallacy Of A Single Immigrant Mom | FemAsia | October 2020 | Read |
Ten poems relaed to COVID19 | Stanford University’s Digital Humanities initiative, “Life in Quarantine: Witnessing Global Pandemic,” sponsored by their Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis (CESTA) | Read | |
Gandhi's Chaadar (Video Poem) | Setu | September 2020 | |
Breathe | Confluence | September 2020 | |
Who Am I (a joint poem with six other poets) | Setu | August 2020 | Read |
The Crystal Ball is Sick and Tired (Video Poem) | Global Poetry Web | August 2020 | Watch |
Hold On Baby, We'll Soon Be Home (Video Poem) | Doordarshan, Kolkata | August 2020 | |
Hard: Us, animals, and the aliens | In All The Spaces-Diverse voices in global women’s poetry (Anthology) | June 2020 | |
Hard: Us, animals, and the aliens | Setu | January 2020 | |
Quail | In All The Spaces-Diverse voices in global women’s poetry (Anthology) | June 2020 | |
Quail | Confluence | August 2019 | |
How easy it is for a Black life to be taken | The POM-Medium | May 2020 | |
How easy it is for a Black life to be taken (2nd Version) | PEN, Maryland Writers’ Association Journal | July 2020 | |
How easy it is for a Black life to be taken (Video Poem) | Poetryspective, Victoria, Australia | ||
Metamorphosis and Catharsis of the rodent and the cat | Imperfect Words-Medium | May 2020 | |
Family Blood | Creative Café-Medium | May 2020 | |
Set straight | Setu | January 2020 | |
Democracy in decline | Setu | January 2020 | |
Smooth Operators | In All The Spaces-Diverse voices in global women’s poetry (Authorspress) | June 2020 | |
It’s not all about sex | In All The Spaces-Diverse voices in global women’s poetry (Anthology) | June 2020 | |
It’s not all about sex | Confluence | August 2020 | |
Las Vegas temptations | The POM-Medium | May 2020 | |
Bellagio fountain speaks | Imperfect Words-Medium | May 2020 | |
Bellagio fountain speaks | In All The Spaces-Diverse voices in global women’s poetry (Anthology) | June 2020 | |
Sweet adrenaline | Setu | January 2020 | |
Sweet adrenaline (Video Poem) | Setu | May 2020 | |
Chase away demons left behind | Setu, January 2020, and in the anthology, In All The Spaces-Diverse voices in global women’s poetry, June 2020 | January 2020 and June 2020 | |
Pity, go take a hike | Setu | January 2020 | |
A woman’s age is kicking and alive | Creative Café-Medium | May 2020 | |
Ache | Confluence | May 2020 | |
Corona and love-life savers | Confluence, May 2020, The Burrow, August 2020 and Spectrum, February 2021 | May 2020, August 2020 and January 2021 | Read |
Jim Henson says, “The most sophisticated people I know - inside they are all children.” | Creative Café-Medium | May 2020 | |
See the blue sky again | Confluence | May 2020 | |
COVID19 stigma | The POM-Medium | May 2020 | |
What happened to their clothes? (Video Poem) | Setu | April 2020 | |
What happened to their clothes? | Creative Café-Medium, May 2020, The Burrow, August 2020, and in Spectrum, February 2021 | May 2020, August 2020 and February 2021 | Read |
Because, “people care about people who care about themselves” | Setu | January 2020 | |
Mom’s shoulders | The POM-Medium | July 17, 2020 | |
A Stronger Species | Age of Empathy-Medium | July 17, 2020 | |
Hold on, baby, we’ll soon be home (Video Poem) | Doordarshan, Kolkata | July 2020 | |
It's not all about sex | Confluence | August 2019 | |
Quail | Confluence | August 2019 | |
Diaspora and Atonement and Some thoughts need not be spoken | Lapis Lazuli | Spring 2018 | Read |
Metamorphosis & Catharsis, and How Can I Pretend | Confluence | August 2018 | Read |
Would you like to try on my hat, please | Confluence | May 2018 | Read |
Devi | Colere | October 2017 | |
Darkie and They Say People Need To Unite and Dyeing-undeying Love Of and Moving Diversity-Moving Spaces and Single Immigrant Mom | AAUW-The Empire State Virtual (NY) Branch Newsletter | Winter 2018 | Read |
Blame and Stories | Confluence | May 2017 | Read |
Minimalist Immigrants | Aaduna | April 6, 2017 | Read |
Why Label? and You, Me and the Animals | Confluence | November 2016 | Read |
Migratory Birds and A Mom and Her Little Girl and For Whom the Bells Toll, and You Are An Immigrant Too | Aaduna | Summer -September- 2016 | Read |
Perhaps Love---No Stupid and Coming & Going | Aberration Labyrinth | August 2016 | Read |
I Am A New “Aging” Woman and Spilt Milk | Confluence | August 2016 | Read |
The Veil | Confluence | May 2016 | Read |
Cacophony | Confluence | November 2015 | Read |
It’s Too Late Now | Aberration Labyrinth | February 2015 | Read |
Monoku Poems
Title | Publisher | Date | Link Text |
|---|---|---|---|
No Real Embrace | House of Haiku | October 25, 2021 | Read |
Diddle-Daddle | House of Haiku | October 25, 2021 | Read |
Three Monoku | House of Haiku | November 3, 2021 | Read |
Gifting a gift | Old Water Rat Journal | February 2022 | Read |
As my womanhood sees, Hide & seek or quiet, Untouchability is an attitude | Setu | February 2022 | Read |
Sleep or gold and Of no real value | Confluence | February 2022 | |
Some birds are wise | Visual Verse | March 2022 | Read |
Pampushky Dreams | The Ekphrastic Review | March 2022 | Read |
Who an I Today? | Journal of Expressive Writing | April 2022 | Read |
Okay and Enough | FemAsia | April 2022 | Read |
Mom and her Motia (Jasmine) | Setu | May 2022 | Read |
Sweet cats and the dire fire! | The Ekphrastic Review | June 2022 |
Publications on Medium
Title | Publisher | Date | Link Text |
|---|---|---|---|
Three monoku poems on a fall and Halloween | House of Haiku | 03/11/2021 | Read |
Diddle-daddle | House of Haiku | 25/10/2021 | Read |
No real embrace | House of Haiku | 26/10/2021 | Read |
Monsoon Peeks | House of Haiku | 01/06/2021 | Read |
Red II | House of Haiku | 27/01/2021 | Read |
Red | House of Haiku | 27/01/2021 | Read |
Three things I do when I find errors/typos in my published writings! | An Idea (by Ingenious Piece) | 21/04/2020 | Read |
Jim Henson says, “The most sophisticated people I know — inside they are all children.” | The Creative Café | 11/05/2020 | Read |
Bangles | The Creative Café | 13/05/2020 | Read |
what happened to their clothes? | The Creative Café | 14/05/2020 | Read |
A Woman’s Age is kicking and alive | The Creative Café | 14/05/2020 | Read |
Bellagio Fountain Speaks | Imperfect Words | 14/05/2020 | Read |
Metamorphosis of the rodent and the cat | Imperfect Words | 15/05/2020 | Read |
COVID19 Quarantine Cabin Fever? | A Club | 18/05/2020 | Read |
Feeling Down, Being Down | Imperfect Words | 18/05/2020 | Read |
Family Blood | The Creative Café | 20/05/2020 | Read |
Just | Imperfect Words | 21/05/2020 | Read |
COVID19 Stigma? | The POM | 22/05/2020 | Read |
Las Vegas Temptations | The POM | 22/05/2020 | Read |
Monsoon Rains | House of Haiku | 23/05/2020 | Read |
Tenderly | The Creative Café | 25/05/2020 | Read |
Priya learnt she was adopted | The POM | 25/05/2020 | Read |
In love | House of Haiku | 26/05/2020 | Read |
As the Princeton University Dinky neared the station on a cold, raining wintry night in 1969… | A Club | 27/05/2020 | Read |
I may miss something so… | House of Haiku | 28/05/2020 | Read |
Wisdom | House of Haiku | 30/05/2020 | Read |
Pandemic | House of Haiku | 30/05/2020 | Read |
How easy it is for a Black life to be taken | The POM | 07/06/2020 | Read |
Fragrances of lost Earth | Imperfect Words | 07/06/2020 | Read |
Zoomies of a puppy | House of Haiku | 08/06/2020 | Read |
My mom | House of Haiku | 10/06/2020 | Read |
Jasmines | House of Haiku | 21/06/2020 | Read |
Sip of wine | The POM | 24/06/2020 | Read |
Aged brew | Imperfect Words | 26/06/2020 | Read |
No crying over spilled milk | House of Haiku | 06/07/2020 | Read |
Hold on baby, we’ll soon be home | The POM | 11/07/2020 | Read |
A Stronger Species (not calling them the human narcissist word, aliens) | Age of Empathy | 17/07/2020 | Read |
Mother’s Shoulders | The POM | 17/07/2020 | Read |
Dry Air | House of Haiku | 19/07/2020 | Read |
Past is not a lesson, sadly | House of Haiku | 14/08/2020 | Read |
Beauty of Daily Blessings | House of Haiku | 23/08/2020 | Read |
Gentle Rain | House of Haiku | 27/09/2020 | Read |
First Kiss | House of Haiku | 11/10/2020 | Read |
Close to Two Lands | House of Haiku | 31/10/2020 | Read |
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